'Now all these are rarity as children prefers packaged eatables from stores. '
Very true Mani ji. They also do not play (with) marbles or gilli-danda any longer, have fancy 'uniforms' and shoes for the football, cricket etc..That's not all, they carry 2 or more (tennis) racquets when they come to play at the gymkhana! (carrying extra racquets for a match is understandable). Coming back to Karonda.. we used pluck and eat the fruit straight of the tree, had one in our old house. Another favorite was (jungli) badam I am almost willing to bet that these simple pleasures of life have bypassed our current city bred youngsters (different in the small town / rural areas). Regards, Samir ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: mani nair <mani.na...@gmail.com> Date: Jan 10, 5:03 pm Subject: Fruits & Vegetables Week: Carissa carandas, the Karonda To: efloraofindia Nice capture Gurcharan ji. We use the unripe fruit to make pickles and the ripe one is very sweet called "Kali maina". During our childhood days, we used to eat lots of this fruits mixed with salt as it was easily available outside our school gate. Along with we also used to get lots of Carambolas and salted tamarind. Now all these are rarity as children prefers packaged eatables from stores. Regards, Mani.
